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startling

adjective as in frightful

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However, he ended up startling Roz, who had been quietly approaching this whole time.

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Pollock has made a couple of startling cameos off the bench, scoring two tries against Wales in March and a game-breaking score against Australia.

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What is startling about the memoir is the disconnect between how the world viewed the young actor and how much it was clearly missing about him.

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On Thursday Mr. Roberts released a startling video to oppose the alleged “cancellation” of Tucker Carlson and even of Hitler fanboy Nick Fuentes, whom Mr. Carlson had hosted for a chummy podcast interview.

Amid the whirlwind turns in U.S.-Latin American relations, the rapid unraveling of U.S.-Colombia relations has been especially startling.

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